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Originally Posted by where2
I'm fortunate that "heat" is never a problem when the power goes out around here. It's usually 92°F with a feels like of 102°F during the day, and gets down to a low of 82°-84°F at night with humidity in the 70-95% range.
Now that I have the Norcold 40qt and 60qt compressor driven 12v/120v coolers, I've got some options for keeping things cold without running the generator quite so much.
If it looks like it might be awhile, there's always the 2kW inverter I picked up off craigslist for free, or the collection of smaller ones I have lying around.
The cell phones can recharge off the 20W PV setup.
Based on the measurements from my TED 1001, I could technically run my central air off the 5,500W generator, but finding ~10 gallons of gas each day gets to be challenging and expensive.
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We are directly reversed , my heat needs are as strong as your cooling requirements.
For your air conditioning Power consumption you could use a small window unit to keep a few rooms cool threw the power outage. then a small er 2000w generator could be used.
a 5,000 Btu window air uses about 500w , 10,000 Btu uses about 900w